Chapter 39 Chapter 39 Who is my bridegroom/bride 1
【Rugui】Forum.
"Has anyone received the dungeon notice? Tomorrow's cooldown period, dungeon title: Who is my bride/groom? Come quickly."
After seeing this title, a large number of online forum players rushed into the post crazily.
[2nd Floor]: ??? Instance preview? Are you kidding me, brothers and sisters? Is this true? When will the instance be upgraded?
[3rd floor]: No, is this dungeon name serious? Is the OP serious?
[4th floor]: Wait and see if any players come to claim you as your relative.
[5th Floor]: Me, me, me, I also received the copy notice. Oh my god, what the hell is going on?
[6th Floor]: Seriously, are the 5th floor players really tomorrow's players? Everyone, please don't just randomly claim them as jokes. Those brothers and sisters who want to enter the dungeon should contact each other in advance today. The more people you have to unite, the greater your chances of surviving the dungeon.
Despite the serious reply from the sixth-post player, there were still some people making trouble in the subsequent replies. According to the author's statistics, there were more than 50 players who said in their replies that they had received the copy notice. This number was definitely wrong, but the author added them as friends one by one, and then everyone turned to the official [Jiansheng] APP to create a group discussion.
The players who were going to enter the dungeon were discussing it hurriedly, and the thread was also busy. In addition to the players in the front row who were grabbing the sofas and floors, the online players who entered the thread later began to guess what this dungeon preview meant.
[92nd Floor]: Seriously, a fellow player posted a dungeon preview this time, and I'm also entering the dungeon cooldown tomorrow, and haven't received any dungeon notifications yet. How can this be treated differently? A selective trial period?
[100th Floor]: Could this be a preview of a new dungeon update? I personally think it's either a single hint or a preview of a specific dungeon. For example, "Who's My Bride/Groom?" is a completely new dungeon, and there's no record of it in the forum posts.
[103th Floor]: Replying to the 100th Floor, are you suggesting that all new dungeons that might appear in the future will be announced in this way? If so, wouldn't we be able to infer that those who didn't receive an announcement are currently in the existing dungeons?
[109th Floor]: Not sure. This mode is new, and we'll only be able to deduce it later as we get more samples. Perhaps "dungeon previews" will be fully implemented in the future, but I personally think the probability is low. After all, it's like giving players a sneak peek, allowing them to connect the dots. Therefore, I'm inclined to think that only a select number of dungeons will receive previews.
In the post, some idle players who were not in a hurry were discussing whether the dungeon preview function would be "fully launched", while others were discussing the type and content of the new dungeon with the eagerly selected players.
[66th Floor]: [Who is my bride/groom?] This dungeon name is hilarious. Let's get down to business. Do you think the chosen player in this context is "me" or the bride and groom? Regardless of whether they are the subject or the object, it means that players in this dungeon will definitely get married, most likely to a strange person, so the focus should be on the wedding.
[79th floor]: Where's the poster? Any more information?
[91st Floor]: I guess he's busy contacting people. This dungeon, based on the literal meaning, should be about finding your marriage partner, right? I think it's more of a story-driven exploration, following clues to find the bride or groom. If you find the right one, you clear the level; if you find the wrong one, you're done.
Cui Xiangwan, the original poster who was called out in the post, finally created a group of 32 people on the [Jiansheng] APP. 53 people replied that they were companions in the dungeon, but because the official APP adopted a real-name system, 21 people were immediately excluded. Even so, it is currently impossible to rule out some players who are taking advantage of the situation and deliberately coming in to watch the fun.
The probability of a copy of 32 people is too low. It is not ruled out that there are real copy companions who do not want to expose themselves and did not reply to contact the poster to join the group.
The more people there are, the more diverse the conversation becomes. Based on the information they currently have, they can only infer from the dungeon's name that it's a "wedding." A dungeon with a wedding ceremony is likely to be about identity discovery. Half the evening passed with these discussions, the players in the group reading the popular analysis in the posts and encouraging each other, working together to complete the dungeon.
The second day.
The copy cooldown period expired, and ten players were teleported into the copy. When they opened their eyes, they were already sitting in a minibus.
Cui Xiangwan quickly scanned the surroundings. There were fifteen people in the minibus. The driver was driving, and the passenger seat was suspected to be an NPC. There was a Double Happiness Wedding logo posted on the window.
Excluding the suspected NPCs of the driver and co-pilot, this instance had 10-13 people in it? He speculated.
Although I created a group last night and knew the names of the group members, I didn’t have any photos.
"Hello." The NPC in the passenger seat was a woman wearing a sweatshirt. She turned around and looked at the members in the minibus.
"Our car just got on the road. Because we're pressed for time, we've only called out the names just now. But you're all netizens who took the initiative to sign up for the event and have some fun. Of course, there's one person who isn't a netizen, haha. He's our sponsor, but he's hiding his identity among you now."
When this NPC started speaking, Cui Xiangwan was a little confused. The information he received was very little, and he could only confirm that they were netizens who came to make trouble.
Who the hell signed up for this? It was clearly a forced entry into the dungeon! The players collectively criticized it.
"Everyone who responded to the post and was invited must know the specific situation. In the car now, besides me and the driver, oh, and our two makeup artists sitting in the back seat, the remaining eleven people are the backup brides and grooms who will be attending Miss Qin Yinuo's wedding."
Excluding the makeup artist, there are actually eleven people. No, there is also a "sponsor", an NPC hidden in the crowd, so there are actually ten players.
Finally I know who the host of the wedding is, Miss Qin Yinuo, it must be a woman.
Cui Xiangwan quickly calculated in his mind, and really hoped that this NPC would call out his name on the spot, or introduce himself.
"Among the eleven new reserve candidates present, one is our financial sponsor, the mysterious TA, who also posted the invitation online."
"They met the beautiful Miss Qin Yinuo by chance and fell in love. But love can sometimes come like a tornado, and the promise of everlasting love can be a lie. Miss Qin Yinuo is extremely charming, and the sponsor often worries about whether he can have such a lasting love, worried about the gains and losses. Therefore, Miss Qin Yinuo and the sponsor specially planned a very special event in this wedding - who is my bride?"
"The newlyweds will eat and live with everyone. On the wedding day, eleven brides and grooms will appear together, covering their entire bodies. Among this symbol of one life, Ms. Qin will find her own place."
"No matter how many people there are in the crowd, it proves that she will still firmly choose that person, her destined lover."
"To add to the fun, the masked couples are both men and women, but their ages are similar."
"You are all carefully selected netizens who replied to our post. I know some of you are here to make fun of us, and some of you are here to witness this somewhat bizarre wedding. In order to help the eleven newlyweds get acquainted with each other as quickly as possible, please introduce yourselves. By the way, I am Xu Xu, the emcee of this wedding." The NPC in the hoodie introduced.
As Xu Xu finished speaking, the task prompt for this copy appeared in front of the players.
【HAPPY HAPPY to all the newcomers! 】
[Surprising? Unexpected? Love can be long-lasting and short-lived.]
Among the eleven people present, one of them is the real bride or groom. Find the right one before the wedding begins.
[The player referendum will be held at 5:00 PM tomorrow.]
[Who's the Newcomer (Undercover Version)? Let's begin~~~]
Please remember that violence is prohibited at weddings and funerals.
Whether or not your choice is right, it will be a grand wedding.
After the host Xu Xu finished speaking this long string of words, combined with the copy prompts in front of them, all the players present understood. Wow, there are eleven people, and there is an NPC among them. At this moment, some players who did not reply to the forum and join the group last night regretted it and wanted to slap their thighs immediately.
If all ten people joined the group and chatted last night, wouldn't it be immediately clear who this person was?
Cui Xiangwan was speechless and helpless at the moment. He prayed in his heart that when he introduced himself, he hoped to hear a few more familiar names.
The self-introduction session mainly involved introducing one's name. Everyone stood up or turned around. When it was Cui Xiangwan's turn, he tried his best to be able to see everyone in the back row and emphasized his own name so that his companions in the group could recognize him.
Good news, he met three pairs of excited eyes.
The bad news is that until he finished introducing himself, Cui Xiangwan only heard four familiar names, two men and two women. Including himself, there were five known group members.
In this way, the five of them were eliminated first, and TA's scope was quickly reduced to the remaining six people.
Cui Xiangwan thought that after getting off the car, the five of them would gather together first. Any player who saw the post would be able to guess what was going on and come over.
Then, what about some real-life code words? He gritted his teeth. What if there were players who didn't see the post or didn't check the forum in time?
This is not easy to do.
It would be best to start with this wedding company. The emcee Xu Xu must know his true identity.
The driver was unlikely, and the two makeup artists were also unlikely. Throughout the journey, Cui Xiangwan was thinking about how to distinguish between the "player" and that "TA".
"We are about to enter the village. Tomorrow is the wedding day. According to local customs, the wedding must be held at night. After we arrive at the wedding villa and put our luggage away, you can walk around at will, but don't run around." Xu Xu said.
"Can we see Miss Qin today?" Cui Xiangwan raised her hand and asked.
Xu Xu smiled. "Of course not. The newlyweds are not allowed to see each other before the wedding. This applies to both real and fake couples. But don't worry about the accommodations I've arranged for you. It's a country villa, with a room per person, which is convenient for makeup. Meals will be delivered directly to the villa. I'll post the process in the group chat later."
If you can't see the bride, then you can only get information from the village and the wedding company.
"Whenever you meet anyone, you can only say that you are a staff member of our wedding planning company. You must not reveal your identity as a newlywed couple."
The minibus was driving at a slow speed on the winding mountain road, and the SUV behind them deliberately kept a distance.
Luo Qing sat in the passenger seat, looking at the two minibuses connected in front and the business car in the front. She leaned out of the window.
"Honey, it looks like they're from a wedding company. There are two minibuses and a business car. There are so many people here."
"I guess they are setting up the venue?" Yan Fufeng guessed.
"For those luxurious weddings nowadays, you have to get a lot of things yourself, and you have to use a truck to transport them."
Luo Qing nodded thoughtfully, "That's right. After all, we're holding it in Sister Yinuo's hometown. There aren't any wedding organizers in the village, so all the wedding supplies, the stage, the speakers, and the clothes have to be shipped in from the city. If you calculate the cost this way, it may not be cheaper than holding it in the city."
"Maybe two ceremonies? One in the village and one in the city? Double weddings are quite common nowadays, with one for each side of the newlyweds."
The two of them talked as they followed the car in front.
It is easy to get carsick when looking at the phone while driving. Xiao Liu just came back last night, and Luo Qing and his wife drove away early this morning. At this moment, Luo Qing received a message from Liu Yanran.
Xiao Liu: Sister? You're not in the store today?
Luo Qing: Yeah, your brother-in-law and I are out. I told you a few days ago that I was going to a friend's wedding, so I won't be back until the day after tomorrow at the earliest. What's wrong? What's going on?
Xiao Liu: Oh, nothing much. A few friends want to rent a room here. If you hadn't come back, I'd have asked them to wait a while, or stay with us first. Have you guys arrived at the wedding yet?
[Luo Qing]: [Thumbs up] Xiao Liu, I found that you are very suitable for sales. Thank you for recruiting me. You don’t have to pay for water, electricity, gas or other expenses in the future. I will take care of it for you. Starting next month, your rent will be reduced by 200 yuan per month.
[Luo Qing]: We're still on the road, and the village is hard to navigate. I'm going to stop now, I'm feeling a bit dizzy.
It seemed that all the new tenants were brought in by Liu Yanran. Luo Qing was originally thinking about how to thank this young sister, but unexpectedly, before she could do anything, she seemed to be bringing new friends to see the house.
After replying to two messages, Luo Qing put down his phone. The car was moving, and looking at the phone made him dizzy and nauseous.
She opened the window to get some fresh air, drank two sips of water, and saw a new message alert on her husband's phone.
"Brother Shang seems to have sent a message." Luo Qing directly opened the phone and played the voice message.
"Where are you two? Why am I the first to arrive? I'm so anxious. Qin Yinuo has no time to deal with me. I haven't even seen what her boyfriend looks like." After the anxious male voice finished playing, Luo Qing couldn't help laughing.
"Brother Shang has been a fisherman for so many years, why is he still so impatient? No wonder he doesn't catch any fish."
"He is just bored. After so many years, he finally has a chance to get everyone together." Yan Fufeng said.
In addition to them, there were five or six good friends from college who were able to make time to come to Sister Yinuo's wedding. Some of them really couldn't take time off, so they could only wish her well from afar and send gifts and cash.
Although everyone is in the same city, the work arrangements inside and outside the city are different. Many companies or units in Guicheng do not have the standard weekend off. Many of them are scheduled in shifts. It is really difficult to get everyone a shared holiday.
This was Sister Yinuo's hometown. This was not the first time for Luo Qing and Yan Fufeng to come. The village was surrounded by mountains and had been a camping spot for outdoor clubs several times.
We drove along the winding mountain road for another twenty minutes before finally entering the village. The wedding company car in front of us took a different route from them.
Luo Qing used the navigation on her phone and finally arrived at the location sent by Sister Yinuo.
"Wow, I haven't been here for a few years and the village has changed a lot." Luo Qing couldn't help but sigh.
The place where they parked their car now was a small villa with its own entrance and yard. The car was parked outside the yard, and a friend's jeep had already taken up the parking space.
"You're finally here. I was alone in this empty villa and almost suffocated." Shang Wei Yan walked out of the courtyard with his hands in his pockets.
"Brother Shang, why are you here so early?" Luo Qing asked. This guy always runs around everywhere, but he is the first one to arrive.
Shang Weiyan couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Qin Yinuo asked me to come to the village to fish, but ended up calling me here early to help supervise the wedding company setting up the stage."
"You two might not know this, but this girl is really good at having fun. She's teamed up with a wedding company to organize a 'Who's My Bride?' event. They've hired ten actors, and tomorrow they're going to challenge her to find her partner among all these identically dressed people to prove their true love."
Shang Wei Yan was chattering, his eyes full of anticipation for something that would shock the two of them.
Luo Qing opened her mouth wide. She slowly looked at her husband, then at Brother Shang, and finally uttered:
"As expected of Sister Yinuo, you really know how to have fun."
"Quite unique." Yan Fufeng couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
"So, what's the situation with her boyfriend?" After finding a room in the villa and putting down their luggage, the three of them sat in the living room. Luo Qing's eyes were already shining.
Shang Weiyan spread his hands: "You ask me, who should I ask? The people at the wedding planning company who set up the stage don't know either. I originally went to the villa prepared for the newlyweds to spy, but they said they hadn't arrived yet."
Luo Qing clapped his hands, and the couple looked at each other and said in unison: "It's time now."
"On the way here, there were two minibuses from the wedding company in front of us!" Luo Qing pointed.
Shang Weiyan stood up immediately and said, "What are we waiting for? Let's go and spy on them. We don't have to worry about getting caught."
"Hurry, hurry, let's go." Luo Qing urged, getting up.
Yan Fufeng couldn't help but cover his face. "Aren't our targets a little obvious? Can't we just watch openly?"
Shang Weiyan rolled his eyes like a bad friend: "You have to peek to feel it, don't you understand? When you were a child, you didn't peek at the bride under the veil."
"But that is also a small villa. What reason do we have to go in? What if they are not gathered together? We can't see them all." Just as he was about to go out, Shang Wei Yan stopped and asked a soul-searching question.
"Aren't you in charge of supervising the wedding? Just tell them to find the person in charge of such and such work." Luo Qing offered suggestions actively.
Yan Fufeng sighed, "Let's get some fruit and snacks and send them over, saying they were prepared by the village."
"Do you have a body camera? It's hard to remember people just by looking." Brother Shang started to give bad advice again.
"Yes, yes, yes." Luo Qing raised his hand. They brought two cameras from home, one of which was convenient for attaching to the body for taking pictures.
"Then who should I put it on? It wouldn't look good if someone found out." Shang Wei Yan's eyes were fixed on Yan Fufeng.
"It must be put on a tall person, Brother Shang. Your height of 1.86 meters should not be in vain. You can look down on all the mountains from a high place." Luo Qing didn't say anything and put the camera directly on him.
"My wife is right. After all, I am only 1.85 meters tall. Besides, this was someone's initiative, so I have to lead by example." Yan Fufeng crossed his arms.
Shang Weiyan gritted his teeth and said, "You two are a couple. I always do the bad things first, I take the blame, and you two run away, right?"
"Yeah, Brother Shang is smart." Luo Qing nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
"My wife is right." Yan Fufeng said.
"Shut up, repeater! Okay, I'm going to take you to see tomorrow's groom, who might also be the bride."
The three of them joked and laughed without any barriers as they drove to the "newcomer's villa" and took the snacks and fruit baskets prepared in the small villa where they lived.
Outside the yard of the "Newlyweds' Villa", the three people did not park the car directly over, but parked next to the next door, secretly observing as they walked over.
Yan Fufeng was holding a fruit basket, and Luo Qing was carrying snacks. They leaned over the gate of the yard and peeked in. They said to Shang Weiyan, "Brother Shang, come on."
Shang Weiyan rolled his eyes and said, "Let's go together."
"Hello, is anyone there? We are from the village and we are here to give everyone something."
The door of the villa was open, so they stood at the door and knocked.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, everyone, it seems like an NPC has arrived. It's a villager. The clue has arrived!"
After confirming the player's identity, Li Xiang, the female player who was entrusted by Cui Xiangwan to observe and follow outside, hurriedly called for help.
The five players who had confirmed their identities hurried downstairs. "Should we call someone else? There must be other players."
"How about we ask first and then call? Otherwise it will be hard to get any clues."
But they were obviously not the only ones who heard the knock on the door. They had just arrived and were carrying their luggage upstairs.
At this moment, Luo Qing and the others saw eight people coming out. They were between 20 and 30 years old, both men and women, and they looked pretty good.
"Three more." Shang Weiyan whispered and gestured to the two of them.
"Hahaha, are you all from the wedding company? I'm the wedding producer commissioned by the bride. There are 11 people living in this building, right? It's going to be quite busy these past two days. I just heard you guys arrived, so I came to give you some food. Are there three more people who haven't come down yet?"
He turned slightly and casually tried to take a picture of everyone.
"Oh, these two are deputy producers." Shang Wei Yan pointed to the couple next to him.
Luo Qing resisted the urge to twitch her lips. What wedding producer? Is there such a position? Brother Shang's ability to deceive people is getting stronger and stronger.
The five players winked at each other silently. The wedding producer might know the information of the newlyweds.
"In our village, if outsiders want to stay here, we need to register them as foreign population. Someone came to check. The wedding company is probably busy and the information doesn't match right now. Could you please come and help with the registration first?" Luo Qing also spoke at this moment.
At this moment, Yan Fufeng suddenly took out a foldable phone from his pocket and unfolded it into a tablet, as if he was ready to register.
Wow, Shang Wei Yan secretly gave a thumbs up behind his back, they are indeed lifelong friends, their cooperation is seamless.
Since it was a registration, naturally all eleven people registered their information and took photos. Luo Qingyan and Fu Feng fully demonstrated the professional qualities of having worked for many years and completed the service with a smile. Shang Weiyan, on the other hand, acted like a little leader who only talked but did not work.
The three of them left the fruit snacks behind and, carrying the information they had obtained, looked at each other and said goodbye politely, but in fact they ran away quickly.
Twenty minutes later——
In the newlyweds' villa, there was a whiteboard in Cui Xiangwan's room with information of six "suspected newcomers" written on it.
"Brother Xiang Wan, you actually brought a blank board into the dungeon?" Li Xiang was dumbfounded.
"I like to make mind maps when I'm thinking. Writing them down helps me organize my thoughts," said Cui Xiangwan.
"Let's do a quick analysis now, then everyone should go out and look for clues about new players. I'll wait in the room for a while to see if any other players come over."
"Everyone, please be honest and united. After all, this is a brand new dungeon. If you guess the couple correctly, we can just attend the wedding. If you guess the couple incorrectly, it will either be our funeral or our collective wedding. No one wants to get married in a dungeon, right?"
In the guest villa, Luo Qing and the other two projected the sorted information onto the TV in the living room, curled up on the sofa and began to reason through the images and names one by one.
"Logically, we should be happy about getting married tomorrow, but why isn't any one of these eleven people smiling?" Shang Wei Yan was puzzled.
Luo Qing narrowed her eyes and said, "I think it's this handsome guy!"
She pointed to a handsome man named Cen Jin who looked well-groomed in both his headshots and candid photos.
"Big pecs, a nice butt, a good figure, and handsome looks. He looks like the best from a pig slaughtering scam! I wonder what those pecs feel like to the touch."
"Wife..."
Luo Qing immediately added: "This young man with a perky butt is the best in Sister Yinuo's aesthetic taste, not me."
"I finally know what you were talking about when you lived in the same tent." Shang Wei Yan said in a cold voice.
"Okay, I'll bet on this too!" he decided immediately.
Luo Qing: What if she guessed wrong?
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